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Speeches that Shaped
the Modern World
Alan J Whiticker
Contents
Introduction: the power of persuasion
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The Old World, I9O1-I9I9
15
The Duke of Cornwall and York, 'The Opening of the Australian Parliament', 1901
16
Mary Church Terrell, 'Being Colored in the Nation's Capital', 1906
20
Theodore Roosevelt, 'The Man with the Muck-rake', 1906
24
Emmeline Pankhurst, 'Freedom or Death', 191 3
29
Patrick Pearse, 'Ireland Unfree Will Never Be At Peace', 191 5
34
Woodrow Wilson, 'War Message', 1917
38
Emma Goldman, 'Address to the Jury', 1917
45
Vladimir Ilych Lenin, 'Constructing the Socialist Order', 1919
51
Between the Wars, 1920-1939
55
Clarence S Darrow, 'Against the Death Penalty', 1924
56
Margaret Sanger, 'The Children's Era', 1925
60
Franklin D Roosevelt, 'The Only Thing We Have To Fear', 193 3
66
King Edward VIII, 'Abdication Speech', 193 6
72
Josef V Stalin, 'Election Speech', 1937
75
Adolf Hitler, 'The Jewish Question', 1939
80
Lou Gehrig, 'Farewell to Baseball', 1939
87
Neville Chamberlain, 'A Hint of War', 1939
90
War, Peace and Freedom, 1940-1949
Winston Churchill, 'Our Finest Hour', 1940
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Charles Lindbergh, 'Neutrality and War', 1941
104
Cardinal Clement von Galen, 'Against Aktion T4', 1941
110
Hideki Tojo, 'The Hegemony of East Asia', 1941
115
Mohandas K Gandhi, 'Quit India', 1942
119
General George S Patton, 'D-Day Address', 1944
124
Harry S Truman, 'An Atomic Bomb Destroys Hiroshima', 1945
128
Golda Meir, 'The Struggle for a Jewish State', 1948
131
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The Cold War, I95O-I959
139
Joseph R McCarthy, 'Wheeling Speech', 1950
140
Margaret Chase Smith, 'Declaration of Conscience, 1950
147
Douglas MacArthur, 'Old Soldiers Never Die', 195 I
15 3
Dwight D Eisenhower, 'Cross of Iron', 195 3
159
Bertrand Russell, 'Russell-Einstein Manifesto', 1955
166
Nikita Khrushchev, 'The Cult of the Individual', 1956
172
Mao Zedong, 'Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom', 1957
178
Charles De Gaulle, 'I Have Understood You', 1958
184
Revolution, I96O-I969
191
Harold MacMillan, 'The Wind of Change', I960
192
Fidel Castro, 'United Nations Address', I960
197
John F Kennedy, 'The Cuban Missile Crisis', 1962
202
Martin Luther King, 'I Have a Dream', 196 3
209
Lyndon B Johnson, 'Let Us Continue', 1963
215
Robert F Kennedy, 'Announcement of Martin Luther King's Death', 1968
220
Edward 'Teddy' Kennedy, 'Eulogy for Robert F Kennedy', 1968
224
Neil Armstrong,'One Small Step', 1969
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Absolute Power, 1970-1979
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Shirley Chisholm, 'For the Equal Rights Amendment', 1970
236
John Kerry, Against the War in Vietnam', 1971
242
Richard M Nixon, 'Farewell to the White House', 1974
248
Gerald Ford, A Pardon for Richard Nixon', 1974
254
Gough Whitlam, 'Well May We Say, God Save the Queen', 1975
259
Barbara Jordan, 'Keynote Address', 1976
264
Anwar el-Sadat,'Peace With Justice', 1977
270
Jimmy Carter, A Crisis of Confidence', 1979
276
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The Big Chill, I98O-I989
283
Indira Gandhi, 'The Liberation of Women', 1980
284
Margaret Thatcher, 'The Falklands War', I982
288
Pope John Paul II, 'Speech to the Polish People', 198 3
292
Bob Geldof, 'Live Aid', 1985
297
Ronald Reagan, 'Tear Down This Wall', 1987
300
Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, 'I Have Sinned', 1988
307
Jesse Jackson, 'Keep Hope Alive', 1988
312
Ryan White, 'I Have AIDS', I988
317
The Dawn of Enlightenment, I99O-I999
323
Mikhail Gorbachev, 'Dissolving the Soviet Union', 1991
324
Paul Keating, 'Redfern Speech', 1992
328
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Queen Elizabeth II, 'Annus Horribilis', 1992
3 34
Nelson Mandela, 'Release from Prison', 1994
3 38
Earl Spencer, 'Eulogy for Diana, Princess of Wales', 1997
345
Bill Clinton, 'The Sorrow I Feel Is Genuine', 1998
3 50
Tony Blair, 'Address to the Irish Parliament', 1998
3 55
Elie Wiesel, 'The Perils of Indifference', 1999
363
The New Millennium, 2000-
371
George W Bush, 'A Great People Has Been Moved', 2001
372
Arundhati Roy, 'Peace and the New Corporate Liberation Theology', 2004
376
Sources
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